Why Johnson Opens the Letters.

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 71

Why Johnson Opens the Letters.

Johnson is thp manasrer of a jobbing hou^e in the city. He sends out a good many letters to the trade, and his efforts in this direction ere greatly facilitated by a young woman who fairly makes the typewriter sing. Johnson didn't appreciate chat girl till she stayed away one day. Before that Johnson had always said: "Pooh ! Anybody can write on an old typewriter. Now. if T had a mind to, Miss Jones, I could take hold of that riving and just make it hum. I know I could." The day Mist Jones was ill he got a chance. So he commenced. Johnson fianeed awnv painfully, and finally gat rid of his bunch of letters. "I'd better read them over," paid Johnson but iust then » customer «aa«

in, and the manager, who was in a hurry to get his post off, stuck his letters into envelopes and let them go as they were. In two or three days he commenced to get letters back enclosing his type-written productions. One firm wrote as follows: — Mr Jay Johnson, London. Dear Sir,— Yours of the 16th to hand. We return the same and ask what in the name of common sense you mean by it. — Yours truly, The Meadow Biook Co. This' was the letter that Johnson had written to them: — Kesdw Book Co. GEXjemon, — yOnRS oF EExent DAte tO ntiCE, WE qhall BE P-eAS.d tO JiLl &ouR OrDerli XuST haNXZd to U§ bY OUR mR. qeterSon. If P?njZd**) I" (o'oa !:?T!) o/o S a i*» yOo/oRS T7Ulo/o jAy !OhNzaX. Every day similar letters are coming in, and Miss Jor.-es wonders why Johnson insists on opening them himse-if.